A company called Space Exploration Technology has unveiled plans to build the most powerful rocket since the Saturn V in the 60s and 70s. It’ll be dubbed the Falcon Heavy and will be twice as powerful as the soon-to-be-retired Space Shuttles. It will be able …
A Blockbuster deal. The saga of the once-mighty Blockbuster Video chain continues. After a three-day auction of the company’s assets, Dish Network has emerged the winner. They agreed to buy Blockbuster Inc. with a bid valued at $228-million. They beat out billionaire investor Carl Icahn …
The US Federal Aviation Administration has called for the inspections of 175 Boeing 737 aircraft. The safety measures come following the incident aboard a Southwest flight on Friday where a plane developed a 5-foot long hole in its roof during flight. 80 of the aircraft …
Amazon has released their new “Cloud Drive” service for all you music lovers. It’s pretty simple. You get 5 gigs of storage, which is good for about a thousand songs. Then you can play them from any web browser or mobile device running Android.
A massive cyber-attack dubbed “Lizamoon” may have infected hundreds of thousands of websites. The hackers exploited security loopholes to insert links to their own site. Once there, users were told they were infected with a bunch of viruses, and were prompted to download bogus “security …
Japanese auto sales have taken a huge dip in the wake of the recent earthquake and Tsunami. Sales in March were down 37% from the same month a year ago, with production at many plants shut down entirely due to power shortages and a …
The World Trade Organization has just ruled that American airplane manufacturer Boeing received $5.3 billion in illegal assistance from the US government. The funds were reportedly used for research and development. The ruling is one of many in Boeing’s long, costly and COMPLEX …
Ever since the IRS launched a special enforcement unit called the Global High Wealth Industry, audits for the super rich have been on the rise. According to the latest IRS statistics, one in five households who earned upwards of 10 million dollars last year were …
The US International Trade Commission is set to review a federal judge’s finding from January that neither Apple nor RIM violated an image-preview patent held by Eastman Kodak. If overturned, Kodak could seek more than 1 billion dollars in royalties from the technology giants. …
Microsoft has outbid dozens of other firms in an auction for Internet addresses from bankrupt telecom firm Nortel. Microsoft offered 7.5 million dollars for 470,000 IP version 4 addresses. In total, version 4 IP’s can support over 4 billion gadgets, but they are quickly drying …
